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3 March 2021
4 amazing years as MEC Chair
Last week I transitioned the position of Chair of ETSI MEC over to Dario Sabella from Intel. Having spent four amazing years serving as the...
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ETSI NFV Release 3: update on protocols and data model specification outcomesRead more21 January 2021
ETSI NFV Release 3: update on protocols and data model specification outcomes
2020 turned out to be an unexpected year, with the COVID19 pandemic adversely impacting the “normal” day-to-day lives of humans across the globe. However, even...
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2020: The year a universe of [COVID-19] apps emergedRead more21 December 2020
2020: The year a universe of [COVID-19] apps emerged
This year ending, the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its effect, the COVID-19 pandemic, have devastated the planet. Its rapid expansion in the first weeks of 2020...
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ENI#16 – Significant progress with approval of much of Release 2Read more18 December 2020
ENI#16 – Significant progress with approval of much of Release 2
The ENI#16 meeting on 7-10 December 2020 was "online only" due to travel restrictions or delegates not allowed to travel. 29 delegates were registered and...
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ETSI’s Unique Selling Proposition (USP) – Addressing European and Global Needs for ICT StandardsRead more20 November 2020
ETSI’s Unique Selling Proposition (USP) – Addressing European and Global Needs for ICT Standards
At one level, what ETSI does is quite complicated. Pulling together multiple stakeholders in Europe and internationally to create standards for complex ICT products and...
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OS container object model and management interfaces: The first set of Cloud-Native VNF orchestration specificationsRead more10 November 2020
OS container object model and management interfaces: The first set of Cloud-Native VNF orchestration specifications
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Insights on API conformance testing for NFV-MANORead more3 November 2020
Insights on API conformance testing for NFV-MANO
ETSI GS NFV-TST 010 (TST010) is a published API conformance testing specification for NFV Management and Orchestration (NFV-MANO) APIs. Specifically, it contains conformance tests for...
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ENI is progressing with 15th meeting & Technology Workshop on AI policyRead more14 October 2020
ENI is progressing with 15th meeting & Technology Workshop on AI policy
The ENI#15 meeting took place from 14-17 September 2020 "online only" as many countries were affected by travel restrictions or delegates not allowed to travel....
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New release: Data models for resource templates to foster interoperability between VIMs and NFVOs/VNFMsRead more20 August 2020
New release: Data models for resource templates to foster interoperability between VIMs and NFVOs/VNFMs
The ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group (ISG) has completed the initial release of ETSI GS NFV-SOL 014 titled "YAML data model specification for descriptor-based virtualised...
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End-To-End Management and Orchestration procedures: The ultimate step towards interoperability (Publication of SOL016 – MANO Stage 3 procedures)Read more19 August 2020
End-To-End Management and Orchestration procedures: The ultimate step towards interoperability (Publication of SOL016 – MANO Stage 3 procedures)
Following intense technical work, ETSI NFV has just released ETSI GS NFV-SOL 016, the first stage 3 specification of NFV-MANO procedures in NFV Release 2...
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Convergence in the MEC ecosystemRead more19 August 2020
Convergence in the MEC ecosystem
I’ve been looking over some of my previous entries lately and noticed how many were touching on the subject of interaction between ETSI MEC and...
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Mitigating the Cybersecurity Threats Which e-Voting FacesRead more10 July 2020
Mitigating the Cybersecurity Threats Which e-Voting Faces
Over the past few decades, many different kinds of electronic voting systems have emerged to assist elections workers and voters in making elections systems easier...
